This has nothing to do with the fans .. we are all waiting to explode and cheer on T Ross. Caseys got his head up his ass and it makes absolutely no sense to me. Even if he "isnt earning it in practice" .. this is the dude that we stretched on with the #8 pick in a loaded draft (ahead of Drummond and others). Its one thing to do that .. its a whole other to do that and not play the guy.

This team is not built for 2013 .. lets wake up! We are BARELY a playoff team at best. We should be feeding minutes to JV and TR to see what they can do. Especially when the options are Fields (playing awful) and AA / AG (d-leaguers).

Ill be there tonight and screaming at Casey when it gets quiet if T Ross isnt getting run...

...Why are they forcing the development of one rookie and inhibiting the development of another?

seriously anyone? because to me it seems like total favoritism and stupidity

Maybe because in the pre-season and so far in season games, JV shows that he is an asset on the floor and T Ross hasn't? Casey is trying to win games. JV is better than the other bigs the Raptors have. T Ross may have been lighting it up in summer league, but his play was far from stellar in pre-season. I think DeMar's play last night eclipsed anything the Raps might have reasonably expected from Ross.

Maybe because in the pre-season and so far in season games, JV shows that he is an asset on the floor and T Ross hasn't? Casey is trying to win games. JV is better than the other bigs the Raptors have. T Ross may have been lighting it up in summer league, but his play was far from stellar in pre-season. I think DeMar's play last night eclipsed anything the Raps might have reasonably expected from Ross.

If DeMar could play like that every game, he would actually be worth his contract and I'd eat all my pixels saying the contrary.

If DeMar could play like that every game, he would actually be worth his contract and I'd eat all my pixels saying the contrary.

I could be drinking the cool aid on this one but I actually think:
- DeMar has upside
- he will continue to improve
- the last 2 years of his contract could be GREAT value
- he won't fizzle now that he has made money and will get an even bigger contract after this one

This team is not built for 2013 .. lets wake up! We are BARELY a playoff team at best. We should be feeding minutes to JV and TR to see what they can do. Especially when the options are Fields (playing awful) and AA / AG (d-leaguers).

+1

after last nights game you say .... hmm ok fields is struggling we are losing why not give ROSS a little bit of the Brooklyn-First-Game-ever rare air?

Jayz and Beyonce we courtside - thats the kind of thing that gets a kid pumped and motivated ... no?

I could be drinking the cool aid on this one but I actually think:
- DeMar has upside
- he will continue to improve
- the last 2 years of his contract could be GREAT value
- he won't fizzle now that he has made money and will get an even bigger contract after this one

I hope so.

One thing I noticed on the lineups at the start of the game was DeRozan was slotted as the SF and Fields was the SG. It is all a little bit of semantics as they are wing players but if the organization is looking at DeRozan as a SF it will be interesting to see how he handles that on the defensive end. I recall him being overpowered by Wallace a few times in the post.

One thing I noticed on the lineups at the start of the game was DeRozan was slotted as the SF and Fields was the SG. It is all a little bit of semantics as they are wing players but if the organization is looking at DeRozan as a SF it will be interesting to see how he handles that on the defensive end. I recall him being overpowered by Wallace a few times in the post.

You're right, it's just semantics. They are putting Demar on the weaker offensive wing. Last night it was Wallace because Demar has been torched by Joe Johnson in the past.

As for TRoss... Did anybody think that he positively impacted the game even close to as much as JV did in the preseason? If you did, we were not watching the same game. In the first regular season game he looked so lost. We are seeing what the coaching staff is seeing day-to-day, he is skilled but isn't as ready as JV. I don't think this thread is doing this, but please don't make this into a Euro BryCo love affair. TRoss (who I have been a big advocate of even before the draft) will get his time, and if they keep losing it will come sooner than later, but he should be thanking his lucky stars that JV is on this team to take some of the spotlight off of him and he can grow at the proper rate (cross your fingers and hope he is developed like James Harden, minus the trade to another team and then explodes).

I think we'll see more of Ross as the season goes on. These first two games have been against top Eastern teams, and as skilled as Ross may be potentially, he's still a bit undersized and raw. JV, and Ross may both be rookies, but JV is still the more overall exerienced player, especially in terms of high level competition. We shouldnt look past the fact that JV is essentially a #2 level pick and TRoss is a #11-12 that went #8. I think we'll see more of Ross as we play more of the weaker teams and the matchups are more favourable for a rookie. There was much talk of TRoss being more the future than DeMar, but I think the new contract tells us that DeMar is the now and TRoss's development isn't going to be rushed.

In most of his preseason burn he looked lost and in over his head. He needs some weight and a better understanding of how to use his tools. Summer league doesn't mean a thing (otherwise DD would be all NBA and no one would be worried about his contract). Ross, at this point, hasn't shown a single reason as to why he should get minutes.